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Guberina considered that these qualities represent the advantages of oral discourse over
written discourse. They guarantee the richness of oral discourse both on the level of
expression and on the level of content, regardless of the economy and the momentary
character of the interactions. So Guberina was opposed to neglecting non-lexicological means
of language when studying linguistic expression.
The non-lexicological elements create the impression that the speakers thoughts and
affections are visible and tangible, which gives the utterance a synthetic phenomenal
appearance naturally, always and only in solidarity with other elements of language.
INTRODUCTION
In the center of Petar Guberina's linguistic theory is the human individual and his/her dynamic
creativity which originates from affectivity and is reflected in linguistic expression. Guberina
examines the language as an inseparable living part of a human being and a social being who,
creatively, through his biopsychosocial structure, manifests himself in communicational usage
through multimodal means of expression which are at his disposal.
At the biological level, the human being exists as a species and possesses symbolic
communicational structures of expression which constitute human language. At the
sociological level the human being belongs to a certain social community and uses the
language and spoken varieties of that community. At the psychological level, the spoken
activity of an individual is characterized by personal traits of a speaker who uses the language
of the community in his own way, giving it his personality. Bearing in mind the complex
dynamic structuration of language and speech, Guberina's linguistic theory, within the
elaborated procedures of the verbo-tonal approach, permanently opens new types of practical
application in teaching foreign languages, in the diagnostics and rehabilitation of hearing and
speech, as well as in fundamental research in language and speech.
More than a Romance language scholar and linguist, beyond the narrow circles of his primary
academic field, Petar Guberina is more famous for the application of his theory of language
and speech. He is known as the author of the structural-global, audio-visual (SGAV) approach
in foreign language teaching and as the author of the verbo-tonal (VT) approach as a
theoretical base for the procedures of diagnostics and treatment of impairments in speech and
hearing, as well as procedures for the phonetic correction of pronunciation in foreign
language teaching.
Guberina entered different areas of scientific study, and he extensively contributed to their
research by examining the issues of general and French linguistics. Therefore, the aim of this
paper is to show the importance of studying the work of Petar Guberina from the
contemporary linguistic viewpoint.
Although he did not place himself in any specific linguistic movement, Petar Guberina took
many scientific initiatives in his substantial lifes work.
SCIENTIFIC BEGINNINGS
Guberina studied in the 1930s in the context of the positivist, diachronic and atomistic
Neogrammarian tradition that was highly developed at the Department of Romance
Languages of the University of Zagreb.
His study visits to Geneva and later on to Paris, the foci of linguistic research of the first half
of the twentieth century, enabled him to learn directly the latest trends in linguistic research.
At the Sorbonne, the young Guberina was introduced to the French linguistic school through
the works of professors Jules Vendryes, Ferdinand Brunot, Charles Bruneau, Jules
Marouzeau and Pierre Fouch. Their approach to the study of linguistic phenomena took into
account the psychological, physiological and sociological factors by which these phenomena
are formed.
Vendryes emphasized the affective, emotional component in scientific observations of
linguistic phenomena and agreed with Charles Bally in his statement that every spoken act is
affectively colored, so that it is impossible to utter the same sentence twice in the same
manner. Affectivity in linguistic expression will remain one of the fundamental axes of
Guberina's study of language and speech.
The young scientist adopted the latest heritage of linguistic science of that time, in its very
origins, and acquired solid foundations for further departures, reviews and scientific
development.
SPOKEN LANGUAGE: LANGUAGE ACTIVITY, LANGUAGE SYSTEM AND SPEECH
In order to encompass Guberinas contribution, let us recall the basic terminological
postulates which modern linguistics is based on.
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language (French: langage). However, the subject
of linguistics exists only in the form of specific spoken languages that are based on an
arbitrary and self-sufficient language system (langue). Speech (parole) is a
concrete realization of the language that is performed by real participants in real
circumstances. Any associated part of speech in an oral or written form is discourse
(discours).
Realizing a language system by speech through concrete discourse is called
enunciation (nonciation), and the smallest unit of discourse is an utterance (nonc).
From his scientific beginnings, Guberina uses the term spoken language
(langue parle) because the language arises from spoken discourse and it is realized through
it. By doing so, he immediately places the field of his research into the linguistics
of speech (linguistique de la parole), or to be more precise, into the linguistics of spoken
language (de la langue parle), since, according to Guberina, language and speech should not
be studied separately.
THE TERM SPEECH (FRENCH: PAROLE) IN DE SAUSSURE AND GUBERINA
Ferdinand de Saussure was one of the first linguists to differentiate language activity in the
wider sense (langage) from the language system (langue) and its realization in speech
(parole). According to Saussure, speech is a completely individual phenomenon, and the
language system itself is primarily a social phenomenon which exists beyond and
independently from the particular individual and his/her particular use of it.
Therefore, Saussure differentiates the linguistics of a language (linguistique de la langue)
from the linguistics of speech (linguistique de la parole) and explicitly advocates focusing the
language studies of his time on the study of the linguistic system or linguistique de la langue.
This is exactly what followed. Charles Bally and Albert Schehaye gathered Saussure's
lectures from his students notes and published them as the Course in General Linguistics
/Cours de linguistique gnrale in 1916, three years after the author's death. The Course in
General Linguistics provided the incentive for the development of structuralism, an influential
linguistic theory in the mid-twentieth century.
Charles Bally, de Saussures student and inheritor of his university chair, founder and editor
of the influential Course in General Linguistics, observed the system of spoken language
from the point of view of affectivity. He named this approach linguistic stylistics.
En somme, je reste fidle la distinction saussurienne entre la langue et la parole, mais
jannexe au domaine de la langue une province quon a beaucoup de peine lui attribuer : la
langue parle envisage dans son contenu affectif et subjectif. Elle rclame une tude
spciale : cest cette tude que jappelle la stylistique. Un des objets de mon enseignement
sera de montrer comment la stylistique sembote dans la linguistique gnrale. (Langage et
vie, 1965, p. 159)
Translation by the author of this paper: '' In short, I remain faithful to the Saussurean
distinction between language and speech; however, I add to it an area of language which
many are reluctant to attribut to it: spoken language with its affective and subjective content.
This area demands a special field study called stylistics. One of the topics of my teaching will
show how stylistics fits into general linguistics.
Bally introduced psychological and sociological criteria into his research of language, and by
doing so, the human individual and his/her subjective, affective, cognitive and social
dimension. He restricted his study to the analysis of words and the valorization of intonation
which, in the beginning, Bally set into means of indirect expression (moyens indirects
dexpression) and later on, in his book Linguistique gnrale et linguistique franaise (1944),
he included them among the basic elements of language expression.
Besides intonation, Bally also emphasized context, situation, facial expressions and body
movement in general as means of indirect expression. Not only Petar Guberina, but also
Emile Benveniste and Oswald Ducrot, significant representatives of linguistic enunciation
(linguistique nonciative) and pragmatic theories of meaning in language, converged with
Bally's theoretical legacy..
Guberina again made a step forward in the valorization of affectivity and subjectivity in
language studies with his theoretical elaboration of the qualities of spoken language, placing
them in the category of affective and subjective elements of content resulting from
multimodal manifestations of spoken language. For Guberina, language is manifested in
dynamic structuration, and it should be studied within the linguistics of speech and spoken
language.
Guberina does not separate verbal speech from ' body language'. According to him the verbal
and the non-verbal are part of the global body language of human beings in dialogue, in the
space and overall circumstances of the communicational situation. In this way he took the
initiative toward adopting the multidisciplinary and multimodal approach in language studies.
These tendencies were intensified during the 1980s. In the meantime, Guberina implicitly
appealed for pluridisciplinarity in his book The Solidarity of Linguistic Elements (1952:20):
Strunjaci iz eksperimentalne fizike, psiholozi, filozofi, logiari i logistiari, sociolozi i
ekonomisti povezuju vrlo esto svoje nauke s jezikom, dok lingvisti vrlo rijetko povezuju svoju
nauku s drugima.
Translation by the author of this paper : ''Experts in experimental physics, psychology,
philosophy, logic and logistics, sociology and economy, very often associate their sciences
with language, whereas linguists rarely associate their science with others.
Since the 1950s Guberina himself practised multidisciplinarity in his own scientific research,
first at the Institute for Phonetics and then at the Suvag Centre, today's Suvag Polyclinic.
Both Bally and Guberina pointed out that all elements of language can be best structured
when communicating in your mother tongue. Only in their mother tongue can speakers fully
master what Bally calls ''effet par evocation i.e. the effect of evocation which words have
within a specific sociocultural linguistic community. Thus, before the Second World War,
both Bally and Guberina emphasized the importance of the native speaker in the reliable
production and interpretation of linguistic expression. This point would especially be stressed
within the framework of Noam Chomskys transformational-generative grammar in the 1950s
and the 1960s.
Guberina starts from the concept of studying a language as a structure, but he speaks of a
dynamic, multidimensional structure, or rather, of dynamic structuring in which the segmental
language material is connected with the suprasegmental values (qualities) of the spoken
language, with the real context and situation, and with the dialogical relations of the
interlocutors. In fact, language structure according to Guberina is globally
(multidimensionally) structural and inseparable from the human being in his/her affective,
cognitive, physical, and spatial reality.
With this attitude, he confronted the staticity and reductionism of linguistic theories which
aimed at achieving objectivity by eliminating man.
According to Guberina, the qualities of the spoken language witness the presence of the
human individual in the particular situation of spoken language realization.
THE LINGUISTICS OF SPEECH, PHONETICS, PRAGMATICS, TRADUCTOLOGY
an integral part of numerous university curricula. Again, we can say that in his theory and
practice Guberina pioneered a new scientific direction - which he explicitly and theoretically
elaborated and implemented as part of his university course at the Faculty of Philosophy in
Zagreb.
His close associate Raymond Renard founded Ecole d'Interprtes Internationaux de Mons in
Belgium in 1962. Guberina cooperated with R. Renard from the very beginning in the
development and strengthening of the newly founded institution.
Since the foundation of Ecole d'Interprtes Internationaux de Mons, Guberina organized the
departure of twelve of his close associates to Mons for support. Eventually, the Ecole
d'Interprtes Internationaux de Mons became the Faculty of Interpreters and Translators at the
University of Mons (Facult de traduction et d'interpretation de l'Universit de Mons). The
Faculty of Interpreters and Translators at the University of Mons now includes Departments
of English, German, French, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Dutch language and offers
internationally recognized undergraduate and graduate programs for professional translators
and interpreters.
EXTERNAL PHENOMENAL APPEARANCE IN LANGUAGE: REALITY-THOUGHT-FEELING BECOME
EXPRESSION
Tako dolazimo do zakljuka da je jezik kao izraz pojavnog karaktera i da je misao kao
misao-izraz opet pojavnog karaktera.
Prema tome kad govorimo o pojavnom liku jezinog izraza, onda tu podrazumijevamo i
pojavni lik misli, misaone operacije, i obratno.
"Thus we come to the conclusion that the formal expression of language is phenomenal in
character and that thought as a thought-expression is also phenomenal.
So when we talk about the phenomenal appearance of linguistic expressions, then we also
think of the phenomenal appearance of thought, cognitive operations, and vice
versa.(Solidarity of the Elements of Language, 1952: 152).
This quote sounds as if it was extracted from the text of a contemporary cognitive linguist.
Cognitive Linguistics, in fact, emerges from the study of language moulded by human
perception and understanding of the world.
Since 1980, this new direction in linguistics has been trying to explain the human ability to
perceive, categorize and understand reality through the study of the structure of language
expression. And here the work of Petar Guberina is a great source of fresh insight.
Reality, thought and feeling are closely connected in the spoken language, so aside from other
things, we use speech to express an objective or cognitive reality. From this solidarity the
language in speech gains a real, external phenomenal appearance. By discovering and
discontinuing the phenomenal world, we gradually come to the conceptual and symbolic
discontinuation of our internal cognitive and affective world. Every language in its own way
structures the events from the experience of our external spatial reality and then the
structuration is transposed at an abstract level of content and linguistic organization in
general:
Kako je prostor u kojemu ovjek ivi i koji ga okruuje toka prema kojoj se odreuje kad ga
podrauje vanjski svijet, osjet spaciocepcije obuhvaa sve osjete.
Koliko vladamo prostorom, toliko razvijamo svoje osjete, svoj govor i svoju osobnost.
As the space in which the man lives and which surrounds him is the point according to
which it is determined when he is stimulated by the external world, the feeling of
spacioception encompasses all senses.
To what extent we master space, is to what extent we develop our senses, our speech and our
personality. (P. Guberina : The Role of the Body in Learning Foreign Languages, RAP,
n73-74-75, Mons, 1985:37).
Mihovil Pansini, a longtime close associate of Petar Guberina, elaborated the notion of
spatioception realized by watching, hearing, and the vestibular, tactile, and proprioceptive
senses. These senses are important units for the rehabilitation of hearing and speech because
they allow the perception of space on which hearing and speaking is based. From this Pansini
derives a neuroscientific argument: an action is a pre-verb (prvotni glagol), an object is a prenoun, an event a pre-sentence and topography pre-syntax course, within the particular
structure of experiential reality in the concrete spoken language.
Today's contemporary linguistic research has branched in different directions, and in scientific
and technical literature in French linguistics the word linguistics is often found used in the
plural, we are in fact talking about modern linguistics in the plural. Let us mention, for
example, the book by Catherine Fuchs & Pierre Le Goffic, Les linguistiques contemporaines
(1992).
However, if we observe it from the perspective of contemporary theoretical sources in the
works of Saussure, Bally, Benveniste and Guberina, we shall find that these contemporary
directions concern spoken language studies embedded in context, and thus the linguistics of
language or the language system and the linguistics of speech seem to constitute an
inseparable whole. This is what Petar Guberina realized at the outset of his scientific studies
of language, and therefore his work was pioneering in a number of directions in modern
language studies.
CONCLUSION
Petar Guberinas huge body of work is difficult to summarize, but four fundamental
postulates could be pointed out:
1. spoken language cannot be observed as a separate unit, separate from the beings who use it,
from the qualities of spoken language and the socio-cultural heritage it results from,
2. spoken language is a dynamic co-activity of participants in communication,
3. teaching and the rehabilitation of speech and hearing includes working on hearing and
speech activity as a polysensoric process involving the human being as a whole,
4. in the center of all considerations of language is the human being in his (or her) creativity
and the constant dynamics of the body, brain and affectivity which result in the human desire
to be in connection with oneself, others and the surroundings.
Thanks to his global and dynamic vision of language and speech, the linguistic theory of Petar
Guberina represents an important milestone in any scientific pursuit of speech and language
issues.
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